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Consciousness (sentience) and intelligence exist at all levels of our
organism, not just in the brain/mind. i.e. each nerve, each muscle cell,
each organ, each "system" of the body has an intelligence and consciousness
(or sentience) of its own.
Meeting innate and primal survival agendas – whilst also attending to both internal and external environmental needs – requires multi-layered communication and meaning-making at all levels of biology. The new science of Biosemiotics [1] has analysed the process of communication and meaning-making in detail and found it so inherently complex – that consciousness (sentience) and intelligence must necessarilyexist at all levels of our organism, not just in the brain/mind. i.e. each nerve, each muscle cell, each organ, each "system" of the body, even each organelle within a single cell, has an intelligence and consciousness of its own - the interactive multi-layered totality of which might be called the "body-mind".
Characteristics such as self-identity, decision-making, memory and intelligence may be observed in the behaviour of single cells. So these attributes (maybe not in a form we would immediately recognise) are present in the smallest of life-forms, were present from the very beginnings of evolution, and the physical biology has also co-evolved within a conscious intelligent framework from the very start.
These cellular organic consciousnesses can be in several states:
… creating an almost infinite number of possible relational configurations. The possibilities are contained within the form (the anatomy and the physical neurological, biochemical, mechanical etc. processes). So whilst the form constricts the ways that consciousness may interrelate to express itself, there is an almost infinite potential for changes in self-referential organisation within something that appears to be limited and fixed by its physicality.
The more general issue of consciousness extends out from in-dividuals to the whole cosmos. Jung was only one of many psychologists, philosophers, physicists (and more recently semioticists) who have recognised the necessity for an extended field (or something of that ilk) of a base-level of consciousness that permeates everything.
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